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Are AI-Detectors & Academia A Bad Mix?
Have you ever felt proud of your writing, only to have a computer tell you it might not be your own work? That’s what happened to me. I’m a graduate student in a writing program, and I’ve always enjoyed putting my thoughts into essays and papers. But lately, AI detectors have made this much harder. These tools are supposed to catch cheating, but I’ve found they often do more harm than good. Let me share my story and some ideas for how we can fix this problem.
The Rise of AI Detectors
AI tools like ChatGPT are everywhere now. Because of this, many professors use AI detectors to check if students are submitting their own work. These detectors look at your writing and give a score that says how likely it is that AI wrote it. But are these scores really trustworthy?
I ran two of my psychology papers through several AI detectors. The results were all over the place:
Paper 1:
- Scribbr: 83% AI
- ZeroGPT: 7.87% AI
- GPTZero: 2% AI
- Grammarly: 0% AI
Paper 2:
- Scribbr: 61% AI
- ZeroGPT: 0% AI
- GPTZero: 8% AI
- Grammarly: 21% AI
